There’s lots that’s new in The Exorcist: Believer: for one, twin possessions involving two totally different households. The most recent trailer, nevertheless, begins by trying again to the previous.
It opens with Ellen Burstyn’s Chris MacNeil confronting a demon who’s possessed a younger woman named Katherine (performed by Olivia Marcum), identical to one possessed her daughter, Linda Blair’s Regan, in The Exorcist. And the trailer hints that this may not simply be any demon, however the very one which took over Regan as MacNeil says, “we’ve met before.”
Though it’s not been confirmed whether or not or not Regan will seem in The Exorcist: Believer, what comes subsequent positively assures that she’ll no less than be prime of thoughts within the sequel. The demon asks MacNeil, “are you looking for Regan?” earlier than yelling “Regan burns in hell!”
Properly, yikes. You possibly can watch the trailer under.
Regan has, after all, appeared in loads of different Exorcist franchise installments, however Believer is a direct sequel to the 1973 unique, which means it may provide you with any variety of issues to occur to the character after she’s exorcized within the William Friedkin basic. Believer comes from director David Gordon Inexperienced, who took the identical strategy to rebooting the Halloween franchise in 2018. Believer is the first of a deliberate trilogy, additionally like Inexperienced’s Halloween reboot.
Inexperienced just lately instructed IGN that Burstyn’s return was a giant cause why he even took on Believer, teasing that he had “an idea I was really passionate about for her character 50 years later to collaborate on.”
“What I was really moved by was the mother-daughter story and bringing that up to speed, up to date, and bringing Chris MacNeil back after so many years,” he stated on the time.
Along with the callbacks, the brand new trailer offers us a contemporary take a look at that aforementioned twin possession, with a glimpse on the different demon sufferer, Angela (Lidya Jewett). Leslie Odom Jr. performs her father, whereas Jennifer Nettles and Norbert Leo Butz play Katherine’s troubled dad and mom.
Right now’s trailer and poster are additionally the primary to tout The Exorcist: Believer’s new date of Oct. 6, because it was just lately bumped up per week to keep away from clashing with Taylor Swift’s live performance movie, in line with producer Jason Blum.
Alex Stedman is a Senior Information Editor with IGN, overseeing leisure reporting. When she’s not writing or modifying, you’ll find her studying fantasy novels or enjoying Dungeons & Dragons.
